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"If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too."
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"You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think."

"To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity."

"The hardest thing to do in life is to be yourself."

"Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough."

"But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples."

"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today."

"The world within you is of greater consequence than the world around you."
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"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."

"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."

"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."

"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

"The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
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